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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.102,NO.75
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1992
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Plans draw new attention to minorities
By Mark Martin Kansan staff writer
A recent proposal by the African American Student Concerns Task Force and a resolution passed by Student Senate three weeks ago have rekindled debate concerning the need for an administrative position responsible for cultural affairs.
Administrators say they are looking into the recommendations, but many minority students at the University of Kansas wonder whether their concerns are really ever heard.
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"It seems like nothing will be done with this until students make some noise about it," said Peter Braithwaite, off-campus student senator and member of the African American Student Concerns Task Force.
Braithwaite pointed out that in 1980, a task force recommended that the University create a new position to oversee minority affairs on campus.
That position was never created.
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Braithwaite co-write the Senate resolution this year, which demanded that the Office of Minority Affairs, which operates within the division of student affairs, be moved up to operate within the executive vice chancellor's office. The resolution also calls for elevating the OMA director to assistant or associate vice chancellor status.
Some think raising OMA's status would allow it to be more effective. Hispanic students have complained that the OMA has been insensitive to their needs and lacks Hispanic resources such as magazines and journals. Most say that with an expanded role, the OMA could serve minority students better.
"The problem with the office currently is that come there with problems they're having on car that office has no power to change policies." Br said. "They can just make suggestions. We're ja that the office needs more respect on campus power."
Tim Dawson, chairperson of Student Senate's affairs committee and the co-author of the Senation, said that the OMA was lost in the shuffle office was too low in KU's organizational structu
"Right now they have to go through too many chag get anything done," he said. "They have to go to the student life, then to the vice chancellor for studen then the executive vice chancellor. Things so before people at the top even hear about them."
Before 1987, OMA worked within the chancellor and the director reported straight to the chance office was moved into the student affairs division stands now.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student off the office was moved to student affairs because determined that the office's main function was with students.
Moving the office to student affairs would all contact with students and with other offices it work with, such as admissions and financial aid.
Ambler said that because of KU's budget constr did not think the University would be able to crea position in the administration.
"The University is carefully studying the ree force report," he said. "One of their recommendat to create a University-wide council that could ove the programs that deal with minority needs."
Sherwood Thompson, director of minority affa that as KU became more multicultural, more woe to be done to coordinate minority affairs.
Administrators point to the planned multicultural as an example of KU's commitment to minority And minority enrollment has risen each of the lays
"With more and more minority students coming may be necessary to have a representative at therative level," he said. "It would help to coordina and assess the needs of minority students in all are
But a planning committee has yet to be formed center, and the original opening date of Fall 1993 pushed back a year. And despite the enrollment in more than 90 percent of the student body is white.
"Right now, it seems like minority and cultural afair treated as a program at KU, instead of within Un structure." Brathwaite said. "We need someone to talk with us about this, people as what's going on, and what needs to go on."
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10,000 Maniacs in Eden · Mudhoney Sweet · Sugar Sour Peter Gabriel Grows Stale · Ministry & Megadeath Tour
1. Mudhonev.
U. COLLEGE RADIO CHART
1. MustardBowl
2. Piece of Cake
3. Sugar, Copper Blue
4. Public Enemy
5. Greatest Misses
6. Jesus Lizard, Liar
5. Soul Asvium. Grave Dancers Union
6. Beat Happening,
You Turn Me On
7. 10,000 Maniacs,
Our Time In Eden
8. Torn Waits, Bone Machine
9. Eugenius, Oomalama
10. Screaming Trees, Snow Olivium
Cable chain based on college video stations. Contribining video stations: KARR, AIRR State U. KEDG, California State U. Scripps,
KALA, U. of California, Berkeley, KLA, U. of California, Los Angeles, KUCR, U.CLA, Colorado, WORLD, U. of Delaware, WORLD,
Drexel, WOOC, U. of Georgia, WIN, Indian U., NXM, Jim Madison U., WMP1, U. of Kentucky, WVUM, U. of Miami,
WVU, U. of Illinois, U. of Maryland, U. of Massachusetts, U. of Texas, U. of Wisconsin, U. of Southern Illinus
Arrested Development, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin...
Malcolm X Soundtrack
★★★★
Forget enrolling in History of Jazz for spring semester because the soundtrack to Spike Lee's *Malecolm* X offers a wonderfully
completes intervention in 20th century jazz and jazz-influenced jams.
A compilation of various artists, Music from the Motion Picture Makolm X gives new meaning to the concept of greatest hits.
The best thing about this soundtrack is that it's accessible for folks who don't know a thing about jazz, who maybe never have heard it, or Charles in his pre-1920 commercial days.
Lee has everyone represented here from the classic, upbeat songs of Joe Turner and Louis Jordan to timeless, soulful ballets by Ella Fitzgerald, Billy Holiday and Aretha
But two new tracks on the soundtrack swing as well. Aretha Franklin's "Someday We'll Be Free" is moving and soulful, as always, but the truly enticing, energized track is "Revolution," from crossover rappers Arrested Development.
It seems fitting that these youngsters open
the soundtrack, setting the tone and offering a landmark to the listener to define where the power of rap comes from — Billie Holiday, Aretha, Coltrane—and it seems fitting that it is Lee who offers this tribute to our collective roots. ■ Lisa Edmunds, Kansas State College, Kansas State U.
Peter Gabriel
★★★
From the gurgling percussion of "Fourteen Black Pointings" to the brass bombast of "Steam," much of Peter Gabriel's *U*should sound familiar to fans.
Little is new; the album essentially catalogues his ethnic dabblings and other approaches to date. And while Gabriel's name makes sense (each word is another
ently bad, few songs on Us cut as cleanly as his earlier work.
Not that there aren't highpoints, "Digging in the Dirt," in which a laid-back groove is broken by inward-directed outbursts, and the
similarly groove-oriented "Kiss That Frog," in which he finds himself directing a fairy tale, are stellar Gabriel. And the perfect softness of "Blood of Eden" obliterates any critical urge, carrying the listener through a
blissful cycle of dersire, union and separation
But "Steam" digs its own hole, pointlessly reworking "Sledgehammer," and the lyrics of "Washing of the Water" are borderline trite with dull music to match.
U is a misfit bag, a pleasant treadmill trip at least. But don't expect to be surprised. Kyle Ylinen, Daily Trojan, U. of Southern California
Sugar
★★
Copper Blue
music
They may be topping the college charts around the country, but these Ryko recording artists are a cheap imitation of the alternative rock groups that share the spotlight with them. Sugar just doesn't cut the mustard with its new release, Copper Blue.
Though the power trio took in extrashrisk rock guitar
vocalist Bob Mould, who displays his bes. talents to date compared with his earlier efforts in the mid- to late '80s with Hisker Du, it's not enough to keep the album from being an overdense, re-hash of the sounds from the 1980s' voice in Chains. Sugar is anything but sweet.
With cliche-ish power chords and an overwhelming rhythm section, *Copper Blue* collaborates everything but originality. The only visible spice in the album's menu is the baroque harpsichord sample tossed into the tune, "Hoover Dam."
But, unfortunately, that's the only musical break you'll get suffering through Copper Blue. The rest of the tunes are a more pleasant balance, and playing over some annoyingly weak vocals.
Sugar misses the mark for creativity here – the band plays more like sweet 'N Low, an imitation of something better that leaves a blink aftertaste in your mouth for about 30 seconds.
If you're looking for the real thing, don't look here. ■ Michelle L. Zielinski, Ke Kalahea. U. of Hawaii, Hilo
in the studio
Ice-T, hot from pissing off almost the entire country, is releasing his sixth LP, tentatively called Home Invasion. Guess is Warner Bros. probably will want to see a lyrics sheet before
Jesus Jones and their hair.
this one hits stores Feb.
Back in the mid-'80s, Simple Minds pleaded "Don't Forget About Me" to us Breakfast Club kids. Well, we did anyway. But with a greatest hits album, Glittering Prize, set for release Jan. 26, they're hoping to recapture some of those glory days.
New Order has re-issued its 1981 album *Movement*, previously unavailable in the states. The LP out in stores, should remind us all what was so drilled to
Jesus Jones. last year's leaders in the we're-English and we-have-keyboards but-was still-stock-category, will release an album next year. The as-of-yet untitled follow-up to 'Doubt' should be available. jac 26
on the road
A brief look at December concert listings
LP, out in stores, should remind us all what was so drilled and saucy about early new wave
*Thomas Dolby.* no longer blinded by science, is back with a new album, *Astronauts & Bombs* and mercurial music starting from unplugged upwelling to distrustily haunting. Or something like that: *Tracy Druison*, Aroonaut, U. of Idaho
Megadath & Suicidal Tendencies: Vancouver, BC, 12/11; Salem, OR, 12/12; San Francisco, CA, 12/4; Sacramento, CA, 12/5; Fresno, CA, 12/6; Phoenix, AU, 12/7; Albuquerque, NM, 12/8; Oklahoma City, OK, 12/10; Houston, TX, 12/11; Del Mar, CA, 12/30; Los Angeles, CA, 12/31
*Ministry & Ministry*: New York, NY, 12/3; Boston, MA, 12/4; Washington, DC, 12/7; Atlanta, GA, 12/9; Orlando, FL, 12/11; New Orleans, LA, 12/13; Houston, TX, 12/14; Dallas, TX, 12/15
*10,000 Maniacs*: St. Louis, MO, 12/2; Kansas City, KS, 13/2; Dallas, TX, 12/5; Houston, TX, 12/6; Austin, TX, 12/7; San Diego, CA, 12/10; Los Angeles, CA, 12/11; San Francisco, CA, 12/12
*Toad the Wet Screet & Gin Blossoms*: Baton Rouge, LA, 12/1; Houston, TX, 12/2; Austin, TX, 12/3; San Antonio, TX, 12/4; Lubbock, TX, 12/8; Albuquerque, NM, 12/7; Flagstaff, AZ, 12/9; Santa Barbara, CA, 12/10; Los Angeles, CA, 12/11; Las Vegas, NV, 12/12
quotable
"Some people still write us off as some shallow pop band. They haven't listened."
—lan Dench, lead guitarist and songwriter for EMF
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